[Am-info] New Apple store near Beantown

[Mitch Stone]

--- From a message sent by John Bryan on 12/16/01 8:55 PM ---

>On Sunday, December 16, 2001, at 03:36  PM, Mitch Stone wrote:
>
>> --- From a message sent by Erick Andrews on 12/16/01 8:34 AM ---
>>
>>>> What, precisely, did they sell?
>>>
>>> Better I should have said "sold out".  What precisely do you think
>>> Microsoft got for their $150M?
>>
>> 1/ Settlement of a copyright infringement suit.
>
>This I think was what the 'undisclosed amount', that was later learned 
>to be I think $200M, was for.  And covered a suit regarding QuickTime 
>and some other things.  The $150 was I think the more publicly visible 
>Jobs-requested-of-Gates public show of good faith and was the investment 
>in non-voting Apple shares?

The undisclosed amount was, of course, undisclosed. At the time, I was 
hearing figures more on the order of $30 million. The $150 million was a 
special class of non-voting shares.

>> 2/ Apple's agreement to distribute IE.
>
>     Not only distrubute, but make the default.  Apple weren't even 
>supposed to include Netscape in the install at all unless it was 
>explicitly specified by the user. NS was on the CD, but would not be 
>included automatically when the user installed the OS, or update.

Yes, this is true.

>> 3/ A technology-sharing agreement (which I suspect was necessary to
>> settle the copyright issues).
>>
>
>Wasn't there also
>
>   4/ Continue to provide Office apps for Mac for next 5 years (which is 
>up next 8/02 BTW) ?

Yes, but the question was, "what did Microsoft get?" in this deal.

 Mitch Stone  
 mitch@accidentalexpert.com